noun as in strong fondness

Word Combinations

Example:The historian relied on retroductive reasoning to understand the causes of the war based on current historical evidence.

Definition:A type of reasoning where current knowledge or evidence is used to infer or predict what occurred in the past.

From retroductive reasoning

Example:Scientists developed a retrodiction model to predict the climate of previous epochs based on modern climate dynamics.

Definition:A model that attempts to explain or predict past events based on current theories and data.

From retrodiction model